Ukrainian forces were reported to be recapturing towns along the west bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine on Monday, with Moscow forced to yield territory along a second major front line just days after claiming to have annexed it.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday lamented what he described as a poor trading mechanism in the African continent, saying there was the need for a more robust physical integration, breaking barriers to geographic and political fragmentations, including strengthening political cooperation.

Burkina Faso’s junta chief and new self-proclaimed leader, Ibrahim Traore, met with cabinet officials on Sunday following the military coup.

Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told press.

Venezuela has released seven imprisoned Americans, including five oil executives, in exchange for two Venezuelan citizens who had been jailed in the U.S.

Gunmen on Friday opened fire and hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station in the southwestern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media reported.

“A number of police members, as well as passers-by, have been injured in the exchange of fire” in the provincial capital of Zahedan, the state broadcaster said.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has visited the demilitarized zone that divides both Koreas, a day after the North fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast.

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has called for stiffer measures in tackling corruption in the region.